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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

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Zvi frequently participates in thought leadership panels at Tech Cocktail, WordPress DC, DC PHP, and DCRUG events. Advice For The Young At Heart business planning business success managing a business startup startup culture Zvi Band' He loves solving new problems and building new products and services.

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SwiftSharing – Age Is No Barrier To Ideas

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Henry, who is homeschooled and self-taught in PHP, also serves as the site’s server administrator. Interestingly, Swiftsharing started without even a business plan, something that Smith admits is their biggest challenge. But he says that they’re working on it with a business consultant.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. Step #2: Pitch investors. What ever happened to “build it”?

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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The business plan was starting to look great and all the idea kinks were worked out. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). We plan to raise $500,000 in seed funding by January and could do so much sooner depending on how quickly the chosen candidate can work.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. They just havd faith in me. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. I am chugging along.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

PHP Tutorials. Businesses. Business Articles. General Business. Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs. Graphic Design Theory. Photoshop Tutorials. Typography Tutorials. User Interface. Design Downloads. Developers. CSS Tutorials.